Shocking new details have emerged in the sordid sex-harassment case involving an award-winning former NY1 reporter, a respected male anchor and the current press secretary to the city comptroller.

Among the charges in the explosive lawsuit filed by ex-reporter Adele Sammarco, 39, are claims that she was once attacked by Gary Anthony Ramsay, a NY1 weekend anchor and reporter, after he drove her home from a party.

Sammarco also charges that another then-reporter for the all-news station, Jeff Simmons – currently the press secretary for Comptroller William Thompson – manipulated a picture of her by adding cartoonishly large breasts to it. The photo was then plastered all over the newsroom, she says.

Sammarco, who expects to make her case in Brooklyn federal court this spring, claims she was taken off the anchor desk, where she often filled in, after she complained about the photo. She said she was then fired – three weeks after she reported the Ramsay incident to the human-resources department.

Those named in the suit, deposed last month, include Ramsey, news director Peter Landis and vice president of programming Steve Paulus.

In the suit, originally filed in 2002, Sammarco claims news assistants referred to her as “BBB,” and later told her the acronym stood for “Big Butt Booty.” She says they also peppered her with inappropriate questions such as, “Would you do a black man?” and “What age did you first have sex?”

She alleges that a crew once secretly taped her and a technician struggling with her stuck skirt zipper moments before she went on the air – making the innocent incident appear lurid – then edited it into a bloopers reel.

In the alleged incident with Ramsay, Sammarco said the anchor drove her home from a party at Cafe Iguana in Manhattan in July 2000. As they said goodnight in the car, Ramsay “held me down with one hand around my neck, crisscrossed my wrists with one of his hands and put his tongue down my throat,” she said in an interview.

In his deposition, Ramsay denied the allegation. He described the kiss as a “peck on the cheek.”

“I may have leaned over and kissed her goodnight,” he said.

Sammarco claims Paulus and Landis encouraged a “meat market” atmosphere in which men harassed female workers and commented about their sex lives and bodies.

At a Christmas dinner, she said, Paulus had a dozen news assistants vote on who had “bigger boobs” – Sammarco or another reporter. Sammarco won. Landis also once asked her to turn around in a dress she had on so he could “get a good look at it,” she claims.

One of her lawyers, Andrew Laufer, said, “They knew what was going on, and they made no effort to curtail it. It’s the definition of hostile work environment.”

She began working for NY1 as a general-assignment reporter in 1992. She was given the environmental beat in 1996 and made criminal-justice reporter in 1998.

In a company memo, she was praised as “one of NY1’s most aggressive reporters, someone who gets material no one else gets,” the complaint states. She also won awards from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Fieri, an Italian-American association.

Those named in the suit refused to comment. “It is not appropriate to comment on pending litigation. We believe that the lawsuit is totally without merit,” said NY1’s Ed Pachetti.

In his deposition, Landis said Sammarco’s substitute-anchor duties were eventually taken away because “she was focusing on anchoring and not on her primary [reporting] responsibility.”

He said she was fired because “her work was not good” and she did not “develop the sources that we expected she would.”